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Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 – A military garrison has been opened in Iran to recruit and train volunteers for “martyrdom-seeking operations”, according to the garrison’s commander, Mohammad-Reza Jaafari.

Jaafari, a senior officer in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told a hard-line weekly close to Iran’s ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the new “Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison” (Gharargahe Asheghane Shahadat, in Persian) would recruit individuals willing to carry out suicide operations against Western targets.

“The Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison has been activated and we will form a Martyrdom-seeking Division for each province in the country, organised in brigades, battalions and companies to defend Islam”, Jaafari told the weekly Parto-Sokhan.

The weekly is published in the Shiite holy city of Qom by the Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute. The institute’s chairman, hard-line cleric Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, is regarded as the ideological mentor of President-elect Ahmadinejad.

The weekly carried a report in its July 13 issue on a meeting between Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi and the commander of Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison. Jaafari was quoted by the weekly as saying that the organisation of "martyrdom-seeking popular forces" was being implemented on the basis of instructions from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

In the earlier interview, the garrison commander spoke in glowing terms of the newly-elected president.

“I have personally met Dr. Ahmadinejad, the distinguished mayor of Tehran”, Jaafari said. “He is a Bassiji [member of the Revolutionary Guards’ paramilitary forces] and I recommend other officials to make him a role model”.

The commander said that “in Tehran alone, there will be four martyrdom-seeking divisions”, adding that “we are currently in the process of recruitment and organisation and soon volunteers will receive training in accordance to their assigned missions”.

The weekly’s interview with Jaafari appeared under the title, “Commander of Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison: Let America and Israel know, each of our suicide volunteers equals a nuclear bomb”.

Jaafari told the weekly that his organisation had set up branches all over Iran and was in particular aiming to convince young persons to enlist for “martyrdom-seeking operations”.

“One of our garrison’s aims is to spot martyrdom-seeking individuals in society and then recruit and organise them, so that, God willing, at the right moment when the Commander-in-Chief of the country’s armed forces [Ayatollah Khamenei] gives the order, they would be able to enter the scene and carry out their missions”, Jaafari said.

“The Imam [Khomeini] said years ago that Israel must be wiped off the face of the Earth, but so far practical steps have not been taken to achieve this”, the garrison commander said. “Our garrison must spot, recruit, organise and train martyrdom-seeking persons to be able to materialise this objective. Any delay in fulfilling the strategy of the Imam and the Supreme Leader in this regard will not be to the advantage of Islam or the revolution”.

“The United States should know that we have nuclear weapons, but they are in the hearts of our suicide bombers”, Jaafari added.

Jaafari is a senior commander who has met with Khamenei on several occasions, according to the interview. He was chairman of the First Conference in Honour of Unknown Martyrs in Tehran earlier this month. The event was widely reported by Iran’s state-run media, which cited Jaafari’s remarks.

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Tehran, Iran, Jul. 23 – The following is the translation of the text of an advertisement that appears regularly in the hard-line weekly Parto Sokhan as part of a recruitment drive for suicide operation volunteers.

“Martyrdom-seeking operations embody the pinnacle of a nation’s greatness and the apex of its epics”

His Eminence the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Statement for Recruitment of Martyrdom-seeking Forces

In order to achieve all-round readiness against the enemies of Islam and the sacred Islamic Republic and to protect the foundations of Islam, the Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison plans to organise “a martyrdom-seeking division” for each province in the country from the martyrdom-seeking and brave popular forces of that province and give them specific and specialised training. We therefore request all our pious brothers and sisters, who are committed and determined to defend Islam, if willing, to submit two photographs of themselves, a copy of their identity cards, and the filled-in application form below to the following address, so that preparations for their organisation and training could begin:

P.O. BOX 16535-664, Tehran

It should be noted that for the forces of the martyrdom-seeking division from each province, the training and preparations for martyrdom-seeking operations will be implemented in that province.

This short clip is first-hand evidence that the Terrorist Islamic Republic of Iran has trained and mobilized some 40,000 human bombs to target the U.S. and Israel or anyone who is a threat to their ideology. This chilling and alarming documentary was produced by the government in Iran and recently shown on AL-ARABIYA TV. The report also shows the grave of a terrorist in Iran, who was hired by the regime to kill Salman Rushdi. This documentary confirms that Iran continues to press for Rushdi's death.To view the clip,

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Declaration Number III
The National Council for Leadership of the Opposition to the Islamic Republic

Subject: Blast in London

You Excellencies

Are you looking for the arsonist terrorists in London and do not find them? In which human court must we present this document so that they will hear all our concessions?

At what price must one focus eyes and ears to these clear documents? Listen to the words of a person named “Dr. Hassan Abbasi”, the theorist of the Islamic republic and custodian of the Department of Martyrdom Camps of the Islamic Republic (suicide operations) from which five months ago, according to reports from Islamic Republic sources, four hundred individuals were graduated and assigned missions. In one of his speeches in a terrorists training class, at the 24th minute and on page 6 of the complete English translated text he precisely states:

“I have had this honor to attack your liberalism, attack your civil society, attack your human rights, today I have this honor, I must say that paganism, paganism front, God enemies front, and Muslims enemies front, are they not but paganism front?
If anything can be done to succumb this front to terror and fear and panic, such terror is sacred. Go; write tomorrow that Abbasi is the theorist for violence, the theorist for sacred terrorism”.

This very same person, after expressing pride in his terrorists training, on discussing England, precisely, states:

“…and of this impish England, beware. I don’t say capture the English embassy. This embassy has gathered all its documents and taken them away. We must capture England itself (see page 10 of complete text and the minute 39th of the DVD.)

Are you still looking for the agents of suicide operations in England?

Abbasi believes that according a certain verse in Qoran, striking bombs, suicide operations, and sabotage are duties of a Muslim and his trainees at martyrdom camps of Iran are brainwashed to carry out their religious (!!) duty!
You Excellency:
Letting madmen loose and keeping wise men in agony, letting ferocious men take wing and cutting off wise men’s wings, seeing short-term profiteering and rejecting all human values will produce nothing but blind outbursts.

When you see the lashes of cruelty that they strike at women and men of Iran and you think of no more than a bunch of dollars, and you simply sacrifice the higher human values, as in the World Charter of Human Rights, for your mere transient greed, you must expect further emboldening and shamelessness on the part of radical Muslims.

Murderers, not being able to grow to the height of today’s progressive world, make believe that they must reduce the world to their level. When you see the caving-in of a tragedy named Islamic Revolution in Iran and you seek loot under the debris, the Islamic terrorism, still riding on the chariot of ignorance and mindlessness goes on racing on the road that you have prepared for them and it burns, slaughters, and ruins as it goes.

Now after all, these riders of ignorance, mindlessness, and violence have arrived behind your walls, and now they are your walls caving in with their explosions, if today you do not look at Iran and the people of Iran and do not assist them in their efforts to relieve themselves from evil and the evil creators of the era, a grave tumult shall engulf the whole world.

If we say the prejudiced Islamic terrorist passes through the pathway of the Islamic Republic, we believe that the Islamic Republic has awakened the dormant monster of the Islamic terrorism and with eradication of the Islamic Republic now ruling Iran, the Islamic terrorism shall plummet in a grand Diaspora and eventually fall in trap.

The swamp of the Islamic terrorism will not dry up in any way but through democracy in Iran and we are willing and ready to take action toward this goal as long as we live.

Public Relations and Advertising Section
The National Council for Leadership of the Opposition to the Islamic Republic

The following petition draft is open for your review, comments, and enhancements.

Regards,
Cyrus
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We know that the obscene butchery of filmmaker Theo van Gogh was only a warning of what is coming in Madrid, London, Rome, and Paris, let alone Baghdad and Basra.

AND THIS IS WHY THEY DID IT by Amir Taheri The Times

“There is no way to reason with the terrorists, but the thinking behind their actions is perfectly clear:

Moments after yesterday's attacks my telephone was buzzing with requests for interviews with one recurring question: but what do they want? That reminded me of Theo van Gogh, the Dutch film-maker, who was shot by an Islamist assassin on his way to work in Amsterdam last November. According to witnesses, Van Gogh begged for mercy and tried to reason with his assailant. "Surely we can discuss this," he kept saying as the shots kept coming. "Let us talk it over."

Van Gogh, who had angered Islamists with his documentary about the mistreatment of women in Islam, was reacting like BBC reporters did yesterday, assuming that the man who was killing him may have some reasonable demands which could be discussed in a calm, democratic atmosphere.

But sorry, old chaps, you are dealing with an enemy that does not want anything specific, and cannot be talked back into reason through anger management or round-table discussions. Or, rather, this enemy does want something specific: to take full control of your lives, dictate every single move you make round the clock and, if you dare resist, he will feel it his divine duty to kill you.”

Mullah's President-Select Terrorist, Torturer and Executioner Profile
THE murders started in the 1980s. Kazem Sami M.D., who was the first Iranian health minister after the 1979 Islamic revolution but fell out with the ayatollahs, was one of the first of dozens of dissidents to die. He was working in a Tehran clinic in November 1988 when an assailant posing as a patient stabbed him repeatedly.
The following July, three gunmen burst into a Vienna flat and opened fire on a meeting of Iranian Kurdish exiles. Among three people killed was Abdul Rahman Qassemlou, the leader of Kurdish opposition to the ayatollahs in Tehran. The murders have never been solved.
[The Sunday Times]

A Brutal Man, a Man with Blood on His Hands
He was personally in charge of some specific missions such as the 1989 execution of Dr. Ghassemlou, the Kurdish leader in Vienna, and in an assassination project against Salman Rushdie. The new President is not the modest and pious leader described at length by the media. He is a brutal man. He is a man with blood on his hands. He is a professional killer, not very well known publicly but very familiar to the intelligence community that see him rightfully as one of the agents of International Terrorism manipulated by IRI. Before him Iran was already a terrorist state. What will happen to it with him? What would you call a country whose chief is a terrorist himself?
[Bernard-Henri Levy, the world famous French philosopher and Translation By Dr. Shaheen Fatemi

Khameni and Guardian Council Selected "Ahmadinejad" as president With Very Impressive Terror Master and Torture Master Record/Profile
- As one of the pro Mullah Regime student leader Played a central role in the seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran
- Mastermind of a series of assassinations in the Middle East and Europe, including Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Qassemlou
- Worked for some time as an executioner in the notorious Evin Prison, where thousands of political prisoners were executed in the bloody purges of the 1980s.
- As Part of Islamic Cultural Revolution, Ahmadinejad and the OSU played a critical role in purging dissident lecturers and students many of whom were arrested and later executed.
- organize Ansar-e Hezbollah, a radical gang of violent Islamic vigilantes thugs.

[Iran Focus]]

Congratulate To Iranian People UNITY For First and Second Round MASSIVE BOYCOTT of Terror + Torture Masters Mullah’s Presidential Election/Selection

All reports coming from Iran to the Iranian Media Alliance by callers from inside Iran indicates super massive BOYCOTT.

The Iranian people have clearly rejected the Islamist regime again by overwhelmingly boycotting the Mullah's Election/Selection SHOW. The BOYCOTT AGAINST THE MULLAHS HAS A GREAT MESSAGE to the Islamist Regime that they MUST GIVE UP POWER PEACEFULY NOW before it is too late Or ELSE ....

THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO WIN THE WAR ON TERROR - THE WAR IS UNWINNABLE AS LONG AS THE MULLAHS ARE IN POWER - SUPPORT THE IRANIAN PEOPLE AND REAP THE REWARDS OF A FREE IRAN WITH 70 MILLION IRANIANS WHO WILL FIGHT ALONGSIDE THE FORCES OF FREEDOM AND AGAINST THE ISLAMIST FANATICS!!

Please don’t expect more from the freedom loving Iranian People with limited resources while G8 has not done anything against islamist regime in Tehran for past 26 years.

My input: The EU-3’s unconditional support for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s government who provides the cradle for international terrorism will one day soon bring massive death and destruction to the West and the innocent people of Iran!

Don’t say we did not warn you repeatedly, you have been warned time after time for so many years by the freedom fighters. You are making the money off the Iran’s poor people’s back, but some day you may have to pay it back in a court of law for crimes against humanity! We hold you responsible.

Meanwhile, the director of central intelligence gently reminded us — or so it appears — that we have profound problems to resolve with the mullahs. Time asked him how we were doing in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. He replied that the matter was rather more complicated than one might imagine, even though, he said in so many words, he was quite sure he knew where the master terrorist was located. I think he told us that bin Laden is in Iran. Judge for yourself:

...we have some weak links...until we strengthen all the links, we're probably not going to be able to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice. We are making very good progress on it. But when you go to the very difficult question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states, you're dealing with a problem of our sense of international obligation, fair play...

Is he not saying that bin Laden is in a sanctuary in a sovereign state? And what state could that be? If bin Laden were in Afghanistan or Pakistan, it wouldn’t seem to be such a vexing problem as Goss suggests. But Iran, now that’s a problem. Indeed the biggest problem in the war against terrorism.

“And therefore the Iranian dictatorship diverted large amounts of money, probably billions of dollars, from the oil revenues from the things that could help the people of Iran in order to accomplish it’s, it’s power objectives in Iraq. And prepared the five major components of it’s secret war in Iraq to take over that country and to oppose the United States and force the United States out of the Middle-East.”

“Recently a defector from the Iranian covert action organization said, and this report was carried by the BBC, and I cannot assure the listeners that this is a genuine defectors, the facts are correct, but I think what he said ties in with the facts that I know and with the judgment I have about the future, pattern of the Iranian dictatorship actions, this defectors said that Iran has spent more than one billion dollars in the last year alone in positioning it’s cover networks in Iraq and that this includes, by the way, buying and renting 2700 apartments and houses in which Iranian agents, weapons, terrorist, or assets and so forth are now living in perpetration for the time when this whole network will become activated. Which I believe will start in July 2004, after the turn over of political authority to the Iraqis. “

Iman translates

”In fact, this defector who was known as the name Hajeed saidie said that the killing of Ayatollah Muhammad akir ala kim the chairman of the council for the Islamic revolution in Iraq was, “one of the most important achievements of the Jerusalem force or the kuds corps. Who succeeded carrying out this mission in Iraq without any difficulty” this is what he said about that. Now, I offer a judgment and it’s speculative but it’s based on 25 years of observation of Iran, the Iranian dictatorship operations, aggressive dictatorship abroad, aggressive terrorism abroad. My judgment is that the eruption of violence by Moktada al-Sadr on April 4th was premature. That it was not part of a coordinated plan, that he acted impetuously and in a sense revealing the part of the Iranian hand inside Iraq by doing so. But that the main activities of the Iranian dictatorship will start when power has been, sovernty has been handed over to the Iraqi institutions which is due as you know to happen in about eight weeks on about July 1st 2004.”

A senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Dr. Menges, 64, was one of the architects of Ronald Reagan’s effort to defeat the Soviet Union.

“Dr. Menges was a heroic figure in the Reagan White House,” former ambassador Faith Whittlesey said. Whittlesey served as the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and on the senior staff of the Reagan White House. “He played a major role in the White House, oftentimes behind the scenes, in helping Bill Casey, Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Bill Clarke not only devise the strategy that defeated the Soviets, but in implementing it.”

# State-sponsored terror. A strong supporter of President Bush’s war on terror, Dr. Menges believed the U.S. was wise to focus upon state sponsors of terror, including Iraq. But from the earliest days of the U.S. effort to remove Saddam Hussein, Dr. Menges said that Iran would try to subvert U.S. efforts in southern Iraq. He suggested the Bush administration had not adequately prepared to deal with Iran’s subversion. He claimed the Iranians had already poured $1 billion into Iraq to support thousands of subversive agents.

After reviewing the above notes and facts our expectations From US, G8 and FREE World are as follows:

1. Iranain people and oppositions both inside and outside Iran can not FREE Iran by themselves with no financial backing while the Islamist regime has full control over Iran's Oil and Gas revenue. According to number of informed sources the Islamist regime spend over 100 million dollars each year in US alone for lobbyist and their Terrorist Network activity in US while all regime's opposition groups together have access to less than few million dollars. So far US government has not done any action to stop Islamist regime money flow in US. The Islamist regime spend 10s of billion of dollars for suppressing freedom loving Iranian people . In past 5 years President Bush said number of times that Bush Admin is going to help freedom loving people for getting their freedom back, but so far there is no clear actions by Bush Admin. US has supported EU3 past dirty games for increasing the life of Islamist Terrorist regime. As long as there is oil export from Iran to EU countries the Iranian people are not going to see their freedom from Islamist regime.

2. G8 must support clear and open policy calling for regime change in Iran.
3. The US Administration must abandon its policy of “Afghanistan yesterday, Iraq today, Iran maybe tomorrow”, and confront the threat from the IRI regime immediately. 70 million Iranian people are hostage to a Islamist Terrorist regime and they are not accepting any responsibilties for this clerical regime terrorist activities around the world.

4. President Bush must deliver an ultimatum to the IRI's primary hidden supporters (Britain) and secondary supporters (France, Germany, EU, Japan, Canada, Russia, and China) to stop giving economic assistance, intelligence assistance, or other assistance to the regime. The EU, in particular, should not use resources stolen from the Iranian people to finance its own failed welfare state.
5. The United States must deliver an unequivocal ultimatum to the Islamist Clerical Terrorist regime to step down peacefully and immediately, and transfer power to a team of Iranian leaders both inside and outside Iran; this team would set up a referendum under US and international supervision with military presence of US, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands in Iran as the peacekeeper.

6. If the mullahs and their president-select do not agree to step down peacefully, which there is no indication that they do then Iran Oil export and all trades must be stopped NOW by U.S. military blockade and the US should provide all necessary financial and military support for the freedom-loving Iranian opposition both inside and outside Iran to remove the regime in a short period of time.

7. The G7 is partially responsible for creation of Islamist Terrorist regime 26 years ago and now should help to remove the "Axis of Evil" they have created and supported. It is unacceptable that anyone expect Iranian people can FREE Iran by themselves while EU3 is helping Terrorist regime for short term financial gain.

Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, in a wide-ranging discussion of foreign-policy issues, says he is disturbed at the possibility that Iran will develop nuclear weapons know-how if current negotiations to stem Tehran's nuclear program fail. In fact, he says, Iran's program is more worrisome than the crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons.

He says that if Iran secures nuclear weapons, nonproliferation may cease to be a "meaningful policy, and then we live in a world of multiple nuclear centers. And then we'd have to ask ourselves what the world would look like if the [terrorist] bombs in London [on July 7] had been nuclear and 100,000 people had been killed." Asked if he favored military action against Iran if diplomacy failed, he says, "I'm not recommending it but, on the other hand, it is a grave step to tolerate a world of multiple nuclear weapons centers without restraint. I'm not recommending military action, but I'm recommending not excluding it."

Kissinger was interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, consulting editor of cfr.org, on July 14, 2005.

8- In response to Dr. Kissinger: EU3, Tony Blair, Jack Straw and Powell all are responsible for past 4 years Iran and Iraq policy failures. US government and EU3 must first agree on regime change policy and provide all kind of help for Iranian people for regime change and if it is not successful then full military option for Islamist regime change should be considered. Dr. Kissinger is not talking about regime change in Iran.
If Bush Admin and EU3 would have listened to By Dr. Michael Ledeen
we would not have been in such a mess in both Iran and Iraq.
Bush Admin must correct its course and regime change in Iran within short period of time should become the top priority ( http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen-archive.asp )
Military option without regime change policy creates another Iraq Mess in bigger scale.

9- If US Bush Admin serious about regime change, the following is one of 100 options they might want to consider:

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Petition: Demanding International Security Protection Force Against Islamist Thugs For Millions Man March In Iran For Liberity

To: For Grass Root Support From Freedom-Loving People Of The World and Free World To Ask Their Government For Action NOW

We, the undersigned, urge you, the members and officers of the United Nations General Assembly, to use all of your diplomatic and political powers for preventing any attack by Islamist Security Forces against Freedom Loving Iranian people by sending 60,000 US/EU International security forces to major cities In Iran for Liberity Millions Man March In Iran against illigitimate unlected ruling clerical Islamist regime and Terror/Torture Masters .

Military/Police/Security training of 200,000 Iranian refugee men and women outside Iran with past clean record, with no association with Islamist regime to replace the terrorist Islamist regime security forces in near future as UN peace keeper in Iran.

Freedom Loving Iranian people agree to pay for 60,000 US/EU International security forces expense and Military/Police training of 200,000 Iranian refugee men and women from 10 billion dollars freezed money by US government in 1979 .

Past 26 Years FACTS About Islamic Clerical Regime:

1) Islamist Security Forces beat and arrest peaceful women protesters at free political prisoners rally in Iran. (Source Reuters 12 Jul 2005 15:17:27 GMT http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6491 )
According to reports from 4 different sources to Radio Yaran (Mebodi) 4 plain cloth regime armed thugs beaten to death a 50 to 60 year old woman in front of Tehran University for shouting FREEDOM.

2) Ms. Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian photojournalist, was arrested on June 23, 2003 and was savagely raped and barbarically beaten to death by Islamic regime officials. (Source: http://activistchat.com/petition2.html )

3) Over the past 26 years the Islamic clerical regime's agents, courts, judges and vigilantes have all committed acts of: murder, stoning, torture, assault, theft, destruction of property, arson, perjury, falsification of testimonials and material evidence, illegal surveillance, kidnapping, rape, blackmail, fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit all of the above crimes, cover-ups and every other form of butchery and depredation.

4) The Islamic Clerical Regime has executed over 120,000 political prisoners and freedom-loving Iranians in less than 2 decades.

“To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 -- October 30, 1919)

"Human beings are all members of one body.
They are created from the same essence.
When one member is in pain,
The others cannot rest.
If you do not care about the pain of others,
You do not deserve to be called a human being."

A Quote from Famous Persian Poet Saadi Shirazi

( 13th century Persian poet, from Shiraz the birthplace of Ms. Zahra Kazemi)

Sincerely,
The Undersigned

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THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO WIN THE WAR ON TERROR - THE WAR IS UNWINNABLE AS LONG AS THE MULLAHS ARE IN POWER - SUPPORT THE IRANIAN PEOPLE WHO ARE HOSTAGE TO ISLAMIST TERRORIST CLERICAL REGIME AND REAP THE REWARDS OF A FREE IRAN WITH 70 MILLION IRANIANS WHO WILL FIGHT ALONGSIDE THE FORCES OF FREEDOM AND AGAINST THE ISLAMIST FANATICS!!

Founding Philosophy: Takfir Wa Hjira, whose name means “rejection of sins and exodus” in English, is regarded as one of the most fundamentalist of the Islamist groups operating today. Claims differ as to the origin of the group. Some suggest that the group was founded in the early 1970s in Egypt under the leadership of Mustafa Shukri. In Egypt, the group targeted secular institutions such as cafes as well as government ministers, and set up a commune in the desert to separate themselves from Egyptian society. Others assert that Takfir Wa Hjira grew out of the al-Zawahiri faction of the early 1980s split in Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), a claim that fits with evidence that Takfir members were involved in the EIJ-linked 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat. Official Dutch government reports claim that Takfir is now under the guidance of a UK-based Palestinian, “Caliph” Abdallah al-Rifai.

Takfir Wa Hijra is best analyzed as a pan-Islamic religious sect or cult, whose membership allegedly includes al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri and Iraqi terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, rather than an organized terrorist group. Its members, who reportedly can never leave the sect once joining, attempted to assassinate Usama bin Laden in 1995 in Sudan for his “liberal” views.

Current Goals: Takfir Wa Hjira, whose membership includes Egyptians, Syrians, Palestinians, Lebanese and other Arabs, operates throughout the Arab and Muslim world and also has cells in Europe. The group suffered a setback in 1999 and 2000 when Syria-backed Lebanese troops crushed one of its strongholds in northern Lebanon, capturing and killing a number of its members. Authorities in a number of Arab countries have arrested members of the group, however Takfir Wa Hjira remains active, and has recently been linked to the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Moroccan sources have asserted that Takfir members in Morocco have formed an operational alliance with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in neighboring Algeria

Description: Twelve Iraqi National Guard recruits were killed when insurgents stopped their bus near Kirkuk, forced the men off the bus, and killed them one by one. Two recruits were allowed to go free, but were ordered by the attackers to warn others not to join the National Guard. The attackers identified themselves at Takfir wa Hijra, an extreme Islamic group. Recent attacks on Army recruits has hurt the development of a strong Iraqi security force.

I think you'll note that there is shared membership with al-quaida, and if you don't know about TKB, it's worth a site tour...

My question to you is how well vetted is the info that SOS provides?

I simply ask your opinion....as you know, when info comes via (or through) a political opposition org...it isn't simply taken for granted as the truth...it is prudent to question intent, in any case...regardless of source.

What concerns me most at this time is the fanatic ravings in tape 1 & 2 , specificly regarding Senator Brownback, and the "six spies"....which I would interpret as Iranian American opposition org's.

I may be wrong in that interpretation in his reference to "spies", but there are other references as well...

P.S. Senators are not in the intel gathering buisiness, there are 14 US agencies specificly assigned to do so in various areas of the US gov.

What I can do, after I hear from you is forward the info onto the right folks, so they can properly vette the info on their end. They may already
have the info in these posts, or not...being a private citizen, I'm not exactly "in the know"...you know. (chuckle).

Meanwhile, the director of central intelligence gently reminded us — or so it appears — that we have profound problems to resolve with the mullahs. Time asked him how we were doing in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. He replied that the matter was rather more complicated than one might imagine, even though, he said in so many words, he was quite sure he knew where the master terrorist was located. I think he told us that bin Laden is in Iran. Judge for yourself:

...we have some weak links...until we strengthen all the links, we're probably not going to be able to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice. We are making very good progress on it. But when you go to the very difficult question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states, you're dealing with a problem of our sense of international obligation, fair play...

Is he not saying that bin Laden is in a sanctuary in a sovereign state? And what state could that be? If bin Laden were in Afghanistan or Pakistan, it wouldn’t seem to be such a vexing problem as Goss suggests. But Iran, now that’s a problem. Indeed the biggest problem in the war against terrorism.

1. It's not in the interest of the hunt to let the rabbit know we know where he's hiding.

2. Bin Ladin is predictable in the sense that his ego is such that he enjoys being a "guest".

3. Noting that the IRI has admitted that al quaida is "in country" , supposedly many "arrested", or in detention (yeah right...Majan Airlines flies them around for free...that's common knowledge)

4. "fair play" is in this context a reference to international law, with regard to violation of borders (thus soveregnity reference) should an attempt to capture or kill him be attempted.

5. As with the Taliban, the IRI is not going to cough up their "guest" or even admit he's in their territiory.

6. "weak links" are certain nations on the UN security council.

These are my best educated hypothosis, from reading "tea leaves" and other interesting data.[/quote]

Yazdi had done so by publishing an ad in Bartouskhan newspaper, a local paper in the city of Qom. Yazdi is considered the spiritual guide of the New Conservatives Coalition in the Iranian parliament. Head of the coalition, Elias Nadran, formed the Zeitoun organization six months ago for Iranians who want to carry out suicide attacks against 'enemies of Islam.'

A-Sharq Al-Awsat's report was based on an interview it conducted with Muhammad Reza Sayari, an Iranian defector who claims he responded to the ad in the paper. According to Sayari, eighty young men were among the first to volunteer to the organization, and to visit Yazdi in his office in Qom.

The London-based newspaper further reports, that the volunteers go through training in four camps of Al-Quds Squadron and the Revolutionary Guard. This includes physical training, ideological indoctrination, constructing explosives, code-breaking classes, and learning of foreign languages including Arabic and English.

No one appears to be sure as to which of the two neighbouring countries French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin referred to when he mentioned terrorist training camps in a joint press conference in London with his British counterpart Tony Blair, but his phrase has aroused anger in Tehran, embarrassment in Paris, and some cheers in Washington, depending on the way it was heard.

Answering a reporter’s question during the press conference at 10 Downing Street, Mr. de Villepin said, “We all have numbers of these Jihadists in our countries. These are individuals who have gone through training camps in Afghanistan, in Iran, in Bosnia and other training camps, and they have acquired experience, a capacity, an operational capacity, a logistics capacity that is quite significant”.

At least two seasoned French correspondents present at the press conference heard the French Prime Minister say “Iran” after Afghanistan, and their news organisations, Agence France Presse and Le Monde, quoted Mr. de Villepin in this way in their separate stories.

The highly respected Le Monde wrote on Tuesday in an article from its correspondent in London, Jean-Pierre Langellier, “In a joint press conference with Tony Blair, the Prime Minister suggested that bilateral exchange of ‘sensible information’ on Jihadists passing through camps in Afghanistan, Iran or Bosnia should be stepped up”.

Not so, says Iran’s official news agency, IRNA. In a dispatch from Paris, the news agency quoted unnamed spokesmen for the French Prime Minister’s office and the French Foreign Ministry as saying that Mr. de Villepin said “Iraq” after Afghanistan, not Iran.

The French Prime Minister has not yet pronounced himself on the sensitive issue. But this is not the first time that the similarity between the names of the two neighbouring countries becomes a diplomatic issue. Mr. de Villepin might take some comfort from this memorandum by Winston Churchill to his Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Bridges, on August 2, 1941: “In all correspondence, it would be more convenient to use the word ‘Persia’ instead of ‘Iran’, as otherwise dangerous mistakes may easily occur through the similarity of Iran and Iraq”.

Note that the French foreign minister makes not one, but two separate references of countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia, and IRAQ.

In my opinion, Iran should have been included without any doubt or speculation. But written transcripts rarely include phonetic mistakes, or are updated with correction if so.

Regards,

Oppie

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Question:

Mr Prime Minister, in an interview with Reuters two days back you said that you would come forward with several proposals on terrorism.

Mr De Villepin:

Tony Blair referred to the different questions that we discussed today in terms of cooperation on counter terrorism. First and foremost it is to better exchange sensitive information that we may have available concerning the Jihadists. We all have in our various countries, we all have numbers of these Jihadists in our countries, these are individuals who have gone through training camps in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Bosnia and other training camps, and they have acquired experience, a capacity, an operational capacity, a logistics capacity that is quite significant. These people when they come back to our respective countries constitute a particular threat because they have been operational and if they have done it once, they can do it again. So if we were to share information, to exchange lists, this is something I proposed in the G5 context some months ago, it is something we already do with our German friends, and we want to expand that cooperation, that exchange of lists, because that must be the first target, we must target these people first and foremost. These people are born in our countries and they have an operational capacity, a direct operational capacity, they have experience in using explosives, they have experience in war and they can use those experiences in our countries. The second area that we referred to was to keep telecoms data for a longer period, which in the case of legal proceedings would enable us to trace the whereabouts, and to trace events linked to a terrorist event. If we keep this data for several years then in legal terms we can prove that there was contact between different groups, because today you know there is a link between international groups and the locals over several years, and if we keep this data over several years and go back and trace their movements over several years, this might be very helpful in the legal context. The third element is how can we in this day and age protect the most vulnerable sites, in particular the public transport, the Metro, the Underground. Each of us has experience in these areas, we have practices and we have evolved over time, as the Prime Minister has said, and this is an area where we should exchange information as well to improve our efficacy, we should share the experience we have built up. And the final area that we looked at is to say that we are both convinced that there is radical Islamism that is being built in our countries being directed at the youngest and weakest. We have these in France, you have them in the UK, and for several months we now we have identified centres of these young people in France, they are around the Mosques or they might be even more underground. We need to pick them up, find out who they are, where they are, where they are going, and if necessary extradite preachers who are preaching violence. In France we do have these legal measures available to us that enable us to work in this way. I think it is important that each and every one of our countries share experience acquired in these countries as a way of making progress in our respective legal systems. We should show that we have the same arsenal, the same legal means available to us in the context of our respective cultures to react against this phenomenon.

Prime Minister:

... those propositions are extremely helpful and I think in all four of them we can take that work forward now between the two countries.

Question:

A question to both Prime Ministers. I wondered if in light of ... changes in position by the Foreign Secretary, and also whether you would agree with some sections of the British public that Iraq, and events after the war in Iraq, after the invasion of Iraq, have played a part in leading to a rise in terrorism or not?

Prime Minister:

Look Angus, as I have tried to say when people have asked me about this, there is absolutely no doubt that these terrorists will use Iraq as a reason, and before Iraq Afghanistan, and before Iraq and Afghanistan, around September 11, they used different justifications. But I think most people understand the roots of this are deeper, and we have also got to be careful of getting ourselves in the frame of mind where we see what they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan now, which is basically the same terrorist ideology, killing innocent people, of having any sort of justification at all. And so I don't doubt that they will use these issues wherever it suits them to use them, but nothing can excuse or justify what they have done, and if you look at the roots of this they are far, far deeper. And there is something else which I find myself having to say at this point, if the concern was genuinely for people in Iraq or people in Afghanistan, or indeed people in Palestine, they would be helping these countries become proper democracies, instead of which the same terrorist ideology is killing people there in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Turkey, in Egypt, in any country they decide to make a target. And that is why I think at this moment what is important is that we stand absolutely firm against this ideology and say we are not going to yield one inch to it, but we are going to stand in solidarity with our own people and with others in defeating it.

Mr De Villepin:

Obviously in terrorist strategy there is an important dimension, which is opportunism, and you see this when you look at how they distribute tasks among one another within the terrorist movements, those who incite and try and find a religious basis for terrorism, those who organise, those who we are talking about now, the Jihadists who have been in the countries, who are on the ground and who are getting expertise and experience and who can carry out terrorist acts on others, and then the small fry, the weak ones who can be indoctrinated by the inciters and the intellectual authors and by the Jihadists. So what we need to do is to try and avoid this, and to that end we need to be absolutely committed and co-ordinate our action, we need to take account of the fact that these terrorists base their action around several crises - Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq. We for our part need to take account of those crises, because the more these crises can be restricted the more we will have the greater possibility of denying the terrorists any legitimacy of basing their acts on these events. So we should cooperate together to face up to terrorism, and at the same time we ought to try and cooperate to find political resolutions to conflict, to tackle wherever there are open wounds in the international scene, to try and bring elements that will resolve them, and to try and close these wounds in the international arena.

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WASHINGTON -- Iranian cadres are training Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, a State Department official told Congress on Thursday. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch told the House International Relations Committee the information was provided by "our own sources."

Welch also testified there was "a continuing covert Syrian presence there" despite the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. And, Welch said, there are armed Palestinian groups in Lebanon, as well.

He said the United States would have no contact with Lebanon's energy and water minister, Mohammed Fneish, who is a member of Hezbollah.

Welch reiterated the long-standing U.S. view that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. The group is known to operate with weapons provided by Iran that are channeled to it through Syria, which borders Lebanon.

Welch said the Lebanese army should extend its authority to southern Lebanon and the militia groups should be disarmed.

But on Wednesday, the leader of Hezbollah said no one can uproot the Shiite Muslim group. "The resistance in Lebanon is not an armed gang that can be hit or eradicated," he told supporters in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., called the statement "profoundly disturbing." He said he was not aware of any Israeli threats to Lebanon.

Welch agreed. Challenging Saniora, whose government has the Bush administration's support, Welch said, "There is no part of Lebanon occupied by Israel."

"I don't know what they would be resisting," he said.

"Hezbollah admits its material support for Palestinian terrorist operations, which undermines the Palestinian leadership's goal of stopping violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories," Welch said.

Still, Welch and James Kunder, an assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the administration had asked Congress to approve $35 million in U.S. aid and $1.7 million in other support.

He said plans would be made for an international donors conference in Beirut this fall.

On another issue, Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., complained that a flag of the area that omitted Israel was posted at an AID project in Sidon.

Such flags are common in Arab countries that do not accept the existence of the Jewish state.

Kunder told Ackerman, "We grabbed one off the shelf and we apologize for it."

Here's a couple things of interest, the testimony refered to has not yet been posted on http://www.state.gov/ , but should be by tommorrow, from having gone to this source many times for complete transcripts.

QUESTION: The Secretary was in Lebanon and met with the Prime Minister
Designate Mr. Fuad Siniora just last week and issued declarations of support
for him. Mr. Siniora was quoted as telling his parliament yesterday that he --
defending the right of Hezbollah to resist Israel. Can you comment on that,
especially in the light of the talks that the Secretary had with him last week?

MR. MCCORMACK: I haven't seen his exact comments but it -- certainly in
discussions with the Secretary and subsequent discussions that we have had with
members of the incoming Lebanese Government, he made very clear that Lebanon
intends to -- has always and intends to live up to its international
obligations. And that includes UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which calls
for the disarming of all militias, including Hezbollah.

Now, the question of the forward progress in the Lebanese political space and
the development of those political relationships is a matter for the Lebanese
people. Beyond that I'd hesitate to comment, as I know that there's a vote of
confidence coming up for this government. I think it's this coming weekend. So
in advance of that vote, I hesitate to offer any comments beyond that. But we
heard very clearly that the incoming Lebanese Government intends to fully live
up to its international obligations, including Security Council 1559.

QUESTION: A quick follow-up.

MR. MCCORMACK: Yes.

QUESTION: I suppose that the Lebanese Government is unable to disarm the
militias, and so they are really in breach of 1559. Will Lebanon be then
concerned that (inaudible) or someone who is not supporting the international
terrorism. What's going on? What is your view on this issue?

MR. MCCORMACK: Well, first of all, the Lebanese leaders that we spoke with said
that they fully intend to live up to their international obligations and
certainly we believe that they will.
We think that right now is the moment to support the process of economic and
political reform in Lebanon. And it's an important moment for the Lebanese
people, after actually having the opportunity after decades of Syrian military
presence in their own country. They have a real opportunity now before them to
realize the aspirations of Lebanese people. We saw that as people gathered in
the streets of Beirut calling for elections, calling for freedom from the
oppression of the Syrian military in their country.

So right now the focus of the international community and the Secretary has
spoken with the French Foreign Minister about this as well on the phone, is to
focus on supporting this Lebanese Government as it moves forward on the process
of economic and political reform and reflects the will of the Lebanese people
for a better future.

Teri.

QUESTION: Change of subject. Has the administration --

MR. MCCORMACK: Does anybody else have anything on this?

No. Okay. Teri.

QUESTION: Has the administration come to its conclusion yet on whether the new
or President of Iran was involved in the hostage taking? There are some
indications there has been a decision.

MR. MCCORMACK: Right. With regard to that question, no conclusions have been
reached as of today. But I would say that we remain very concerned over charges
regarding President- Elect Ahmadinejad. The taking of the American Embassy is
something many Americans remember with both outrage and disgust. And let me
once again stress that it is the responsibility of the Iranian Government to
respond to these charges frankly and clearly.

We still have out in public the very clear statements from some of the former
American hostages and I think, at this point, although the investigation has
not been fully completed, we have found nothing that -- as of yet -- that I
could say would contradict what the former hostages said. But, again, as this
-- as I said -- this investigation is still ongoing. It hasn't been completed
yet.

QUESTION: And how far along has the State Department gotten in its interviews
with former hostages?

MR. MCCORMACK: I'll check with you on the exact number on that.

QUESTION: You said you found nothing as yet to contradict what the former
hostages have said. Have you found anything to support what they have said?

MR. MCCORMACK: Again, I would put it the way that I did and this is still an
ongoing investigation. But this could greatly benefit from the Iranian
Government very clearly and definitively and in detail speaking to what these
former hostages have said.

QUESTION: Sean, unless I'm wrong, I though the Iranian Government has very
clearly and very forcefully said he was not involved.

MR. MCCORMACK: To what I've -- I've seen some very general statements talking
about the photograph that I've seen on TV. But the former hostages have talked
very specifically about what they remember as his participation in
interrogations. And I don't think that we have heard definitively from them on
that score.

QUESTION: No. I believe that the President himself in his official bio and
members of the student group have said that he was a member of the -- I don't
remember the exact name of the group, but the College of Sciences or something
-- that organized the student takeover, but that he was not a physical
participant in the capture or the holding of the hostages.

MR. MCCORMACK: Again, we have at this point not come across in our
investigation anything that would contradict what these former hostages have
said.

QUESTION: So are you saying that you don't believe the Iranian Government or
you feel that they haven't made a specific enough explanation? And is the word
of the Iranian student group, the organizers that were a student group at the
time, even if they weren't in the government, is their word enough for you?

MR. MCCORMACK: As I said, we believe that it is the responsibility of the
Iranian Government to respond to these charges frankly and clearly and that
remains.

QUESTION: Change subject?

QUESTION: Can I ask you something else?

MR. MCCORMACK: On this Barry?

QUESTION: No, on another (inaudible.)

MR. MCCORMACK: Okay.

QUESTION: Why don't we change the subject?

MR. MCCORMACK: Joel.

QUESTION: Following yesterday's U.S.-Muslim peace press conference, a vocal --
WMAL Radio talk show host was suspended. And in Pakistan President Musharraf
now is saying that all foreign students attending these madrassas schools must
leave the country even if they're dual nationals. Do you want to see a similar
clamp down for counterterrorism by other governments and entities elsewhere?

This excerpt may give a clue as what's coming up in the proposed Arab League summit, in Sharm (as reported in other media).

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Media: Ambassador, I'd like [inaudible] -- Do you believe that Iran[inaudible] stabilize Iraq? And what [inaudible]?

Ambassador: It appears that Iran and some of the other neighbors are not being very helpful. As a matter of fact some are being unhelpful. And the Iraqi government was approaching it to engage with these governments and the other neighbors to discourage these unhelpful policies from continuing. Iraq it is an important country in this region. It's very important for the neighbors of Iraq to understand that and to develop good relations with the emerging, very powerful, successful country. So Iraqis are likely to remember who was helpful and who was unhelpful in the transition to becoming an important government.

Media: [Inaudible] more aggressive, more assertive in expressing [inaudible]?

Ambassador: We'll see them being more assertive and active in this area. For example, [Inaudible] has proposed an Arab Summit on terrorism and PM Ja'afari wants to travel to other countries. So I think you will see them active with their neighbors.

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And this: (as copied from an article from Northeast Intelligence Network)

Iran's President-Elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Complete Bio - In His Own Writing
1 July 2005: Is the president-elect of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, one of the hostage-takers at the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979? The Northeast Intelligence Network called upon its Farsi-language resources to help determine the answer to this question. Sure enough, the answer is readily found on the official website of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, written entirely in Farsi, and complete with images. The website includes various documents from Ahmadinegad’s campaign where he claims "I Can Control the Americans - I Have Experience Doing It". In one particularly disturbing document, he claims that if elected, he will “bring the death that the Shi’ite are experiencing in Iraq to the streets of America with the volunteer martyr brigades that are ready to act.”

Ahmadinegad claims that under his leadership “America will not stop Iran from its uranium programs. Iran has a right to defend itself against the Zionist sons of pigs and apes.” He says that he “knows how to control the US and will do so when the time is right.”

The website in fact boasts of his involvement in the Embassy takeover, even posting photographs of Ahmadinegad and his fellow students.

The website claims that this photograph was taken inside the US Embassy in Tehran in 1980.

The official biography on Ahmadinejad’s website leaves little doubt as to his involvement in the 1979 embassy takeover:

Born in Garmsar, east of Tehran in 1956

4th child of 7

Working class family

Father was a blacksmith

Family moved to south Tehran in 1957

Graduated high school

Enrolled Elm-o Sanaat University 1975 studying engineering

Became leave of student activist group at Elm-o Sanaat University

Founded the Islamic Students Association at Elm-o Sanaat shortly after fall of shah

1979 became representative from Elm-o Sanaat at the Office of Strengthening Unity between Students and Theological Seminaries (OSU) (OSU set up by Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, top confidant to Ayatullah Khomeini

Iran government website Baztab, claims Ahmadinejad worked as an executioner in the notorious Evin Prison.

1986 became senior officer in Special Brigade. Revolutionary Guard, at Ramazan Garrison (Ramazan Garrison was the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards' "extra-territorial operations", a euphemism for terrorist attacks beyond Iran's borders.)

Governor, Maku and Khoy (towns in NW Iran)

1993 appointed governor of Ardebil Province

1997 return to Elm-o Sanaat University to teach and organize Ansar el Hezbollah

2003 became major of Tehran; founded Abadgaran-e Iran-e Islami party

An opposition website claims the following:

In Kermanshah, Ahmadinejad became involved in the clerical regime's terrorist operations abroad and led many "extra-territorial operations of the IRGC". With the formation of the elite Qods (Jerusalem) Force of the IRGC, Ahmadinejad became one of its senior commanders. He was the mastermind of a series of assassinations in the Middle East and Europe, including the assassination of Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Qassemlou, who was shot dead by senior officers of the Revolutionary Guards in a Vienna flat in July 1989. Ahmadinejad was a key planner of the attack, according to sources in the Revolutionary Guards.

There are many indications of Syria's continued intel presence in Lebanon, it's no secret that Iran has armed and trained Hizbolla, or it's ongoing alliance with Syria to destabilize Iraq, and ongoing mutual support for terrorism.